Art Appr Test 4

Section: Early Renaissance Art Ch. 12

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*Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini & his wife

Jan Van Eyck - Early Renaissance Art (Belgium) - representation of textile merchant, easel painting, commissioned for Giovanni's home not for a church, 33" tall, appears to be secular everyday life but religious undertones and symbolism

renaissance

means "rebirth", changes in worldviews, thoughts, values, more humanistic, more confidence in self

oil painting

medium of painting - the most prominent painting for centuries, allows for minute detail, powdered stone mixed with oil, can erase and blend easily, takes long time to dry, developed in Northern Europe

main artist creates design, theme, features, but have young artists actually paint it

*Merode Altarpiece (Triptych of the Annunciation)

Workshop of Master of Flemalle - Early Renaissance Art - detail of left wing

*Merode Altarpiece (Triptych of the Annunciation)

Workshop of Master of Flemalle - Early Renaissance Art - everyday life, simulates home in Flanders in 15th century but religious scene and much symbolism, 3-paneled (triptych), scene from Bible: angel tells Mary she will have Jesus, Mary is reading, doesn't know yet, Joseph on right - patrons (Merodes) on left watching

*The Deposition

Rogier van der Weyden - Early Renaissance Art - 1-paneled altarpiece, scene from Bible: Jesus being taken down from the cross

picture plane

flat surface objects are represented on, artists try to make you forget it

one point & multiple point perspective, everything appears to recede into the distance at the same rate, method of creating the illusion of 3D space on a 2D surface by delineating a horizon line and multiple orthogonal lines, recede to meet at 1 or more vanishing points giving appearance of spatial depth

orthogonal s

any line running back into the represented space of a picture perpendicular to imagined plane, in linear perspective all orthogonals converge at vanishing point and are basis for grid that maps internal space of image

Renaissance man, artist, painter, architect, interested in geology, anatomy, engineering - viewed knowledge as the most noble of pursuits - his designs couldn't come to fruition because they were ahead of the times - only have 15 works of his art

Leonardo da Vinci--

embodies phrase "man is measure of all things" (following thinking man not God is center of universe)

Michelangelo - High Renaissance Art - this work established him as at age 23 - Mary holding Jesus' body, mourning - marble ("set it free") - Mary looks youthful, suggests purity, vulnerability, an outward manifestation of inner virtue - Mary is much larger than Jesus, sense of weight

Michelangelo

became famous as a sculptor which he preferred, but famous for both sculpture and painting

pieta

means "pity", popular in Europe but not Italy (preferred the Lamentation)

*David

Michelangelo - High Renaissance Art - over 17 ft tall in the round - made for cathedral, but people liked it so much they put it in the city square and it became the symbol of Florence - moment before killing Goliath, calm restraint and anticipation, idealized, youthful, nude, sculpture, contrapposto, strong and defiant, David's looking directly at Rome, pent-up anger (veins in hands) - Classical ideals in proportion-emphasis on head and hands (most expressive features) - mixture of Classical and Christian ideals

a horizontally projecting element found at the top of a building wall or pedestal

*Creation of Adam

Michelangelo - High Renaissance Art - Sistine Chapel ceiling, first major time God had been represented in art, act of God bringing Adam to life, Adam's pose mirrors God (God made men in his image), Eve is waiting in wings to be born, muscular figures symbolize strength/power

Venice artists

liked oil painting - stands test of time in Venice (fresco doesn't last in humidity)